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Avoiding the crowd mindset

Avoiding the crowd mindset

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Avoiding the crowd mindset

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- Let's imagine for a moment that you're shopping at the grocery store. You see several checkout lines in front of you. A couple of the checkout lines are long, but another two are shorter. Which line do you get into? The value of using the shortest line at a grocery store is obvious, right? Yet so many people when it comes to time put themselves in the longest line, so to speak, because of the choices that they make in terms of prioritization. For example, in the US, April 15th is generally tax day. It's the day when everyone needs to submit their tax report to the government to make a payment or to get their tax refund. Now, occasionally leadership at accounting firms ask me to help them be more productive. What they'll report to me is that the weeks leading up to April 15th are the craziest, busiest weeks of the entire year. Why? Because almost everyone waits until that last moment to get their taxes in. But…

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